Seen that? - New legal challenges for Carrefour

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New legal challenges for Carrefour Supplychainer

Talks between global retail giant Carrefour and its suppliers are underway as new french legislation governing backroom deals and pricing strategy hits the statute books. Legal amendments, which came into effect on January 1 under the Dutreil Law, have updated the French Commerce Code to redress the balance of power between manufacturers and distributors, while attempting to lower retail prices. The law confirms the supremacy of the manufacturers' terms of sale, rather [...] Read More


Walmart and Carrefour in China: Whose strategy is better? Supplychainer

Walmart has recently finished the construction of a central distribution center in Kengzian (China). The place is a massive 40000 sq m facility with 70 huge doors designed to handle deliveries from trucks. While Walmart is making a central distribution center in China but Carrefour, the French competitor, has a different strategy. Carrefour relies more on local distributors to deliver direct to the stores because it believes that flexibility matters [...] Read More


Supply chain education and its challenges Supplychainer

I recently read a blog on the effectiveness of the supply chain education. The blog reflected the concerns of the managers regarding young supply chain professionals: "I am tired of recruiting people with supply chain education background and then noticing they don't have a solid knowledge base in the area". That's true. There are several points that came to my mind in this respect: - Companies can never get rid [...] Read More


Legal Things for peace of mind Biz Plan Hacks

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Rich Legg Rating: View Member Portfolio Send Member Sitemail Reviews View Reviews [7] File Tools Download A Comp Add to a Lightbox Public Lightboxes [6] Today the Zen Habits blog talks about five legal things for peace of mind and I want to talk about four of them. First of all, get a will done. While you may not have to worry about it after you're passing do not put your family through having to figure [...] Read More


Free Legal Resources for Business Owners Home Based Business

How many of us home based business folks are getting too iffy when faced with the legalities of our businesses? No matter how we so hate these legal issues, they all need to be addressed so we can sleep well at night. Now if there's no problem with getting all the holes covered, what's keeping you from getting legal advice? Lawyers are expensive! No doubt about that. So thank Samuel Dean [...] Read More